Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 6 February 2011
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The Wives of Henry Oades
An English accountant and his two wives are the subject of this intriguing and evocative debut novel based on a real-life 19th-century California bigamy case. A loving husband and attentive father, Henry Oades assures his wife, Margaret, that his posting to New Zealand will be temporary and the family makes the difficult journey. But during a Maori uprising, Margaret and her four children are kidnapped and the Oades's house is torched. Convinced his family is dead, Henry relocates to California and marries Nancy, a sad 20-year-old pregnant widow.
Catherine Anderson explores the restorative powers of love with a tender romance that springs from a seemingly disastrous one-night stand. Her heroine, Carly Adams, falls for the first guy she lays eyes on, literally. Born blind, 28-year-old Carly has recently had her vision restored. Unfortunately, the handsome cowboy she falls for is careless, and soon
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 6 February 2011
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The Eye of Calanish
The Eye of Callanish is set at the beginning of the twelfth century on the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. It tells the story of a young girl, Mairi. She believes that she is able to communicate with the ancient people who built the temple of Tall Stones at Callanish. Mairi is aided in her escape from her persecutors by Neil and the hermit Brother Durston, who we first met in Weapons of the Wolfhound. On the way they face many dangers and frightening situations. But just who are these ancient people that Mairi is communicating with? Where did the beautiful white horse appear from? And whose is the dead body in the cleft?
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 6 February 2011
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Child of the Dark Star
"There was a planet once called Earth. Its people, scattered like seeds before the wind, came to rest on Agaron..." His premature birth under the dreaded Dark Star had doomed him to be banished to the marshlands, but he found himself drawn like a magnet to the glittering Temple of the White Star. There he found a girl trapped in crystal. Who was she? Could he release her? And could they, together, outwit the harsh lords of Agaron? This is the gripping story of one man's fight to free his mind from the conditioning of a restrictive and powerful system... It is the story of a love that would not accept the Law... It is a story of the last days and the first...
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls. Book 1: Moving Day
When nine-year-old Allie Finkle's parents announce that the family is moving, Allie's sure her life is over. She's not at all happy about having to give up her pretty pink wall-to-wall carpeting for creaky floorboards and creepy secret passageways...not to mention leaving her modern, state-of-the-art suburban school for a rundown, old-fashioned school just two blocks from her new house.
